NEW YORK, NY.- After a long awaited settlement regarding the Portrait of Wally, a 1912 oil painting by artist Egon Schiele, the painting will be on view to the public at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust from July …
A Trio of New Exhibitions Open at the Fine Arts Center
COLORADO SPRINGS< CO.- The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center welcomed three new exhibitions. The artists, Earl Biss, Gib Singleton and William Kentridge, are each masters of their own distinct disciplines. Biss, a Native American, is a major contributo…
Leopold Museum Pays a $19 Million Settlement for Egon Schiele’s "Portrait of Wally"
NEW YORK (AP).- A 12-year dispute that illustrated the difficulty of proving art was stolen by Nazis in World War II ended Tuesday with an agreement that a 1912 oil painting entitled “Portrait of Wally” will be returned to a Vienna museum and displayed…
UK Appeal to Secure First British Portrait of a Black African Muslim
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery today launches,
with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the Art Fund, an
appeal
to acquire for the nation the earliest known British oil painting of a
freed
slave, and the first portrait…
Gallery Launches Appeal to Secure First British Portrait of a Black African Muslim
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery today launches, with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the Art Fund, an appeal to acquire for the nation the earliest known British oil painting of a freed slave, and the first portrait that honou…
Famous Chinese Modernist Painter Wu Guanzhong Dies at 90
BEIJING,
CHINA – Wu Guanzhong, known as one of the fathers of modern Chinese art
for combining western and Chinese elements in black and white oil
paintings, has
died. He was 90. He died in Beijing on Friday. Wu’s works have become…